I am an evil giraffe. But I'm trying, Nick. I'm trying REAL HARD to be the wizard.

…and that is a legitimate ‘if:’ anyway, if it turns out that Broadwell’s revelation last month is correct and that Benghazi was hosting a secret jail* for the purpose of extraordinary rendition then I hope that people will find the following posts to be useful.

In other words: I told people about this, back in the beginning of Obama’s first term. I even maybe managed to guess from which country the revelation that we may have screwed up, although I assumed at the time that it’d be in conjunction with the Qaddafi regime. And here’s the thing: whether secret jails existed in, and rendition occurred at, Benghazi or not, there are secret jails and rendition is going on right now somewhere. What we’re just trying to figure out whether this particular practice and policy was the specific reason why four Americans were murdered in Libya.

According to the executive order, “The terms ‘detention facilities’ and ‘detention facility’ in section 4(a) of this order do not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis.”

…which is pretty much what Broadwell described in her speech: a temporary facility designed to hand off CIA prisoners caught under irregular circumstances, to allies of varying levels of dubiousness. And as the two quotes above demonstrate, the CIA’s ‘denial’ thus does not actually rebut Broadwell’s statement: fine, they’re not in the detention business. They’re merely in the business of temporarily holding people captured under conditions not conducive to prosecution under American criminal law until said captives can be handed over to allies of various levels of dubiousness. You know. Extraordinary rendition.

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This is why there is no such thing as a hyphenated liberal.
There are no eco-liberals, no welfare-liberals, no peace-liberals ..
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The minute one of their own is in power, they go *remarkably* blind on the subject that, a day earlier, they decried at maximum volume.
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There are only liberals, and .. as the saying goes .. all cretins are lying sacks of weasel excrement.
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Mew
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(meaning no offense to http://www.sweasel.com of course!)

Over at the WSJ, James Taranto found a couple of articles, pre-Petraeus, that the CIA has been running secret interrogation facilities in Somalia. And since this is pre-Petraeus, I doubt this is just some rogue CIA operation. So the probability the Administration is operating overseas secret interrogation prisons is… well, let’s just say another Obama promise hit the expiration date.